It was a little after breakfast on Saturday and Aaron and I were sitting around the cabin. We were lying on Aaron's bed he was listing to music while I was attempting at a letter for Mom, trying not screw up the words. I got upsut and put the letter on the trunk in front of his bed. I sat up and moved to the head of the bed with Aaron.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

"I'm listing to a song called Am I Wrong? Tyler from the Athena cabin told me it was good." He replied.

"Whos it by?"

"A band called Love Spit Love." He said. He paused the song and stared at the tree. "Your good at stories right? A lot less dyslexic than me."

"Yeah, I'm not that bad."

"Could you tell me the story about Apollo and Daphne? Like Mom would?" He asked. I smiled.

"No problem. Okay, there's this beautiful Naiad named Daphne. She pledged that she would be a virgin. And of course there was Apollo, one day he was being cocky and said that Eros, the god of love, did not have arrows as powerful as his own. He even said that Eros should just had over his bow and arrow and give up on the entire thing. Well, Eros wasn't having any of it, so he decided to show Apollo that he wasn't taking his crap and he was just as powerful. So, Eros shot Apollo with golden-tipped arrow making him fall in love with Daphne. But Eros wasn't done, he shot Daphne with a lead-tipped arrow making her hate Apollo. This was Apollo's first love, he was crazy for her. He would chase her through the woods, which Daphne hated. She ran to the bank of a river and cried to her father Peneus to save her from Apollo. Peneus turned her into a laurel tree. Apollo was crushed, he decided that the laurel tree would be sacred to him and would often wear a laurel wreath on his head." I was staring at the tree the whole time.

"I still can't believe that you know that story by heart."

"I can't believe you don't, mom told us stories about Apollo all the time." I said.

"I talked to him." Aaron said.

"Who?"

"Apollo. He was in my dream. He was talking to me. It happened in the car ride down here. He said his name was Fred."

"Same with me. He showed me this house with all these pictures. The one from yesterday."

"He showed me the same thing. He said that Zues was scared about our power and that he was afraid of Apollo's old foes attacking us." He put air quotes around the word power. We talked about the dreams for a while.

"Do you think, that he avoided us. I mean for our lives, up to this point?" I asked.

"No, he couldn't have. I mean, were his kids. Mom says all the time, 'I don't understand why I can never avoid your sister after she loses a softball game. I mean really, shes always there' and then she would laugh and you would walk into the kitchen in your uniform. Then Evan would walk in our apartment and look at you while you yanked off your dirty slide pad and throw it down the stairs and he'd make a face and back out the door and shut it quietly." He smiled.

"Like you didn't do the same with football..."

"Yeah, well... BLAH!"

"Genius. Did you write a letter to Mom yet?"

"Not without trying to rip my eyes out."

"Well that's joyful."

"Its hard. I'm gonna go for a walk. You wanna come?" Aaron asked.

"Nah. I'm gonna try to finish my letter."

"Have fun with that." Aaron rolled off of the bed and walked out the door. I sat up and grabbed the paper. It took me a half hour to finish it.

Dear Mom,

How are you? I got claimed by Dad. I'm sure you knew

who he was, because he told me he told you, but anyway

It's Apollo. Camp is great, there's so much to do. Theirs

this Pegasus named Achilles who really likes me. I hope

you know how hard it is to write this letter, sorry I can't

write more, but I want to break something. Its making

me angry. I was wondering of you could send me some

stuff from my room. You know what I mean. Don't forget

peanut butter. Jiffy. Okay, well I gotta go. I love you.

Stephanie

I was getting more angry. I folded the letter and put it in an envelope. I walked out of the cabin with it and walked over to the Big House. Everyone was giving there letters to Chiron so he could mail them out and write the return address on it. I walked up the steps of the porch on the Big House.

"Ah, hello Stephanie. Got a letter for home? Asking Mom for a care package filled with goodies from home?" Chiron asked.

I smiled. "Yeah, how'd you know?" I handed Chiron the letter.

"Its always the first letter. Hello Mr.D." Chiron took the letter as Mr.D walked out of the Big House.

"Hello Chiron, Stacy."

"Good Morning Mr.D." I said. He nodded and sat down at the table.

"Well Steph, I'll get your letter out as soon as I can." Chiron said.

"Thank you Chiron, have a good day Mr.D." I walked down the steps and headed to the stables. Campers smiled at me like they knew something I didn't, till I saw Connor and Travis and they smiled that way, its just common and I was nervous to stand round. Who knows what they were doing. When I got to the stables there was only one camper in there, Tyler from the Athena cabin.

"Hey Tyler." I said. Tyler turned around, he was a child of Athena even though he has black hair and hazel eyes. He has glasses, rings and reads a lot.

"Hey Steph. Whats up?"

"Nothing really, just dropped a letter to home to Chiron. Checking on Achilles."

"Yeah hes right there, goin' for a ride?" He asked.

I shrugged. "I don't see why not."

"You have ridden a horse before right?"

"Yeah, but not with wings." I said.

"Well yeah, Its pretty much the same, there are basic commands. Fly to fly, left for left, right for right. You know, except you wouldent tell a normal horse to fly. Just follow the trails and you'll be all set." He said.

"Thanks Tyler." I said.

"No problem." He smiled and walked out of the stables.

I walked over to Achilles's stable, he flapped his wings when he saw me. I put a hand on his nose.

"Hey Achilles. You wanna go for a walk?"

I opened his stable door, and he walked out, his wings folded in. I looked at the note board. I picked up the marker and wrote 'Went for a ride with Steph at 12:30' and walked out with Achilles trailing. Once we got out he stretched his wings, definitely 20 foot wingspan. I climbed on his back and he started down a trail. He took me down this trail were we walked along along a river. There was a little opening and Achilles spread his wings and flew into the air. I locked my arms around Achilles's neck, holding on for dear life. After a few minutes I decided to look up. The woods stretched below us, the Long Island Sound seemed to stretch forever. I wondered how nobody could notice this all, but there was the Mist, it was like a veil over mortal eyes so they couldn't see what Ancient Greek creepers and awesome creatures that were still walking the Earth. He landed back down in the same spot, on our way back down the trail I saw Tyler riding down so we stopped.

"Chiron wants you and your brother to meet him down at the Big House as soon as you can. I just told Aaron so hurry." He said.

"Okay, thanks Tyler." I said. He nodded. "Achilles, come on to the stables." Achilles huffed and galloped to the stables. When we got there he walked himself into his stable. I shut the door behind him and smiled. "Good boy."

I turned and ran down to the Big House.